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Gillian Tett

Chairman of the US Editorial Board and America Editor-at-Large, Financial Times Awarding-winning journalist

Must-read financial journalist who combines her knowledge of markets with original insight on the behaviors that drive them.

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Gillian Tett has an unparalleled track record at predicting International Economy important trends that impact the world. She called the Brexit credit crunch crisis three years ahead of anyone else. Her journalistic work, to chart and explain the ensuing global Anthropology financial crisis is well documented and she has received awards for her work. More recently, she foresaw the rise of populism, the electoral success of President Trump, and she now warns on the emerging risks posed by certain new types of Fintech — products and services that arise from new types of ‘financial innovation’ and the current lag of effective regulation and governance to manage these activities.

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Phone 908.253.8600  Web www.LeighBureau.com  EMail [email protected] Anthropology Economics  Gillan Tett Chairman of the US Editorial Board and America Editor- at-Large, Financial Times

Gillian Tett is Chairman of the US Editorial Board and in the 1990s. She was Japan bureau chief for the FT America Editor-at-Large at the Financial Times. In her during their ‘lost decade’. Gillian’s next book will be previous role at FT, she was Managing Editor (US) about why every CEO (and investor) needs their ‘inner and columnist and also oversaw global coverage of anthropologist’ to make informed decisions. the financial markets. Her twice-weekly column In recognition of her work, Gillian has won several earned her recognition as Columnist of the Year awards, including the UK Speechwriters’ Guild at the 2014 Press Awards. In 2004, Gillian began Business Communicator of the Year 2012, the building a team at the Financial Times to cover Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards capital markets, correctly anticipating the need 2009, British Business Journalist of the Year in to watch an industry growing uncommonly fast. 2008, and the Wincott prize in 2007. Gillian also By 2007, a year ahead of the curve, she began received The British Academy President’s Medal issuing her news breaking warnings of a looming 2011, which rewards service to the cause of the financial crisis. humanities and social sciences, specifically Gillian’s current book is The Silo Effect: Why for her insightful journalism contributing to Every Organisation Needs to Disrupt Itself to public understanding. More recently, she was Survive. She is the author of the New York recognized as Columnist of the Year at the 2014 Times bestseller Fool’s Gold, the gripping tale Press Awards. of how a team of Wall Street bankers led by J.P. Gillian has a PhD in Social Anthropology from Morgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon created the world Cambridge University, based on research of ‘shadow banking,’ and then lost control of their conducted in the former Soviet Union in the early creation. Fool’s Gold is a vital contribution to 1990s. She speaks French and Russian and has our understanding of the worst economic crisis studied Japanese and Tajik. since the Great Depression. She also wrote Saving the Sun, about Japan’s financial collapse

Credentials

 Chairman of the US Editorial Board and  Winner, Journalist of the Year 2009, British America Editor-at-Large, Financial Times Press Awards  Past Managing Editor, United States, and Columnist,  Winner, British Business Journalist of the Year Financial Times 2008, British Press Awards  Foreign Commentator of the Year 2017, Editorial  Winner, Wincott Prize, 2007 Intelligence  Honorary degrees from Baruch University  Columnist of the Year, 2014 Press Awards (2013), Lancaster University (2015), Exeter University (2016), Miami University (2016)  Winner, 2014 Marsh Award, awarded by the Royal and Carnegie Mellon (2017). In December Anthropological Society in recognition of outstanding 2017, she gave the commencement speech at use of anthropology or anthropological ideas to London University contribute to a better understanding of the world’s problems  Awarded the UK Speechwriters’ Guild Business Leigh Communicator of the Year 2012 Bureausm  2011 President’s Medal by The British Academy, W.ColstonLeigh,Inc. UK’s national academy for the humanities and social 92 East Main Street Suite 200 sciences Somerville, New Jersey 08876 Phone.908.253.8600 Web. www.LeighBureau.com